| Issue |
EPL
Volume 90, Number 4, May 2010
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| Article Number | 46005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/90/46005 | |
| Published online | 17 June 2010 | |
Structure of charged colloid-polymer mixtures
Departamento de Física Aplicada, Grupo de Física de Fluidos y Biocoloides, Universidad de Granada E-18071 Granada, Spain, EU
Corresponding author: jcalleja@ugr.es
Received:
1
December
2009
Accepted:
2
June
2010
We use a light scattering technique to investigate the effect of adding non-adsorbing charged polymers to a very dilute electrostatically stabilized colloidal suspension at low electrolyte concentration. The experimental results show that, as the polymer concentration increases, the main peak of the colloid-colloid structure factor moves to higher q-values, which cannot be only due to the screening of the direct colloid-colloid electrostatic repulsion. We show that the colloid-polymer electrostatic repulsions lead to enhanced depletion forces that have a strong influence on the colloid structure, even for diluted suspensions. The experimental results are interpreted using the off-lattice Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model (PRISM), and very good agreement is found for all polymer concentrations.
PACS: 61.20.-p – Structure of liquids / 82.70.Dd – Colloids
© EPLA, 2010
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